With few exceptions, even mutual funds that have historically held up well in bear markets have been battered by the recent upheaval on Wall Street.

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Say this for Stewart: Although he's a growth stock buyer, he holds up pretty well in bear markets.

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But after months of reporting and hundreds of bear sightings, I kept running up against an inconvenient truth: There were a lot of well-meaning, well-credentialed scientists, wildlife officers and local experts who simply didn't believe that polar bears were one ice cube away from extinction.

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Consumers have held up fairly well, but with stagnating wages and rising costs, their capacity to bear the grunt will wear out, and that could have dire consequences for the already fragile economic recovery.

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